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lived Lord Palmerston, father of the Premier, in 1806, and
the Duchess of Brunswick, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales, d.
1813.
Other inhabitants: the present No. 20, Field-Marshal Viscount Cobham,
1736-48; George Granville, Lord Lansdowne, d. 1735; Ambrose
Phillips, poet, d. 1749. At the present No. 10: Admiral Lord Rodney,
1792-96; Admiral Lord Anson, 1762; "Single Speech" Hamilton, 1765;
Percival Pott, surgeon, 1777-88; Thomas Campbell, poet; Sir James
Clark, physician, 1841.
The streets round Hanover Square are mainly broad, well built, and
lined with shops. Hanover Street and Princes Street were built about
1736. In the latter Sir John Malcolm died in 1833. Swallow Place and
Passage recall Swallow Street, which was cleared away to make Regent
Street in 1820.
In Regent Street stood, until recently, Hanover Chapel, with two towers,
designed by C. R. Cockerell, and built in 1824 at a cost of £16,180. The
Ionic portico was imitated from that of Minerva Polias at Priene. In the
interior was a painting of "Christ's Agony in the Garden," by Northcote,

presented 1828 by the British Institution.
Harewood Place was closed at its northern end by gates until 1893,
when all gates and private bars were removed throughout the district. In
Tenterden Street, No. 4 in 1776 became the residence of the Herberts,
Earls of Carnarvon, who still own the property. It, with Nos. 5 and 6, is
now occupied by the Royal Academy of music, founded in 1822 by the
Earl of Westmoreland. Among eminent pupils have been Sterndale
Bennett, Sir G. A. Macfarren, Sir J. Barnby, Mackenzie, Sir A. Sullivan,
and Goring Thomas. At the end of Tenterden Street is Dering Street, so
called in 1886 instead of Union Street.
At the southern end of the Square George Street was built about 1719,
and at first named Great George Street, in honour of George I. It is
wide at the Square end, but grows narrower till Maddox Street is
reached. Its chief feature is the Parish Church of St. George, designed
by John James, begun in 1713 and consecrated in 1724, one of Queen
Anne's fifty churches. The style is Classical, the body plain, but having
a Corinthian portico of good proportions, and a clock-tower 100 feet
high. The interior contains a good Jesse window put in in 1841. In 1895
the building was redecorated, repaired, and reseated, and the old organ
by Snitzler, put up in 1761, was replaced by a Hope Jones electric
instrument. This church has been long celebrated for fashionable
marriages. Among those in the register are:
1769. The Duke of Kingston to Miss Chudleigh, she being already
married to Mr. Harvey, afterwards Earl of Bristol. She was afterwards
tried and convicted of bigamy.
1771. Richard Cosway, R.A., to Maria Hatfield.
1793. H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex to Lady Augusta Murray. The
marriage was declared void under the Royal Marriage Act.
1791. Sir William Hamilton to Emma Harte (Nelson's Lady Hamilton).
1797. The Earl of Derby to Miss Farren. The ceremony took place in
Grosvenor Square.

1849. Mr. Heath to Lola Montes.
1880. Mr. J. W. Cross to George Eliot.
Among the Rectors of St. George's were Charles Moss, D.D., 1759-74,
afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells; and Henry Courtenay, 1774-1803,
made Bishop of Exeter in 1795.
At the bottom of George Street is Limmer's Hotel, formerly a noted
resort of sporting men, rebuilt and enlarged in 1876. No. 25 is a
handsome stone-fronted mansion, built in 1864 for Earl Temple. In
1895 it was in possession of the Duchess of Buckinghamshire. In a
house on the same site lived John Copley, the painter, and his son, Lord
Lyndhurst, d. 1863.
Other inhabitants: No. 3, Madame de Staël; 7, Admiral Sir Edward
Hawke; 8, David Mallet, poet, 1758-63; Sir William Beechey, R.A.; Sir
Thomas Phillips, R.A., d. 1845; 9, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1803; 13,
Lord Chancellor Cowper, 1723; 15, Sir George Wombwell, afterwards
for a short time the Junior Travellers' Club; Earl of Albemarle, 1726;
Lord Stair, 1726; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, d. 1762; Sir Thomas
Clarges, 1726; Colonel Francis Charteris, 1729; Lord Shelburne, 1748.
Maddox Street was built by the Earl of Burlington in 1721, and named
after Sir Benjamin Maddox, the ground landlord (d. 1670). It contains a
museum of building appliances established in 1866 in connection with
the Institute of British Architects. Mill Street is so called from a mill
which stood near the corner of Hanover Square; near it is Pollen Street;
both are unimportant. Conduit Street, completed about 1713, is so
called from the city conduit which carried water from the Tyburn to
Cheapside. It was built for private residences, which have now been
transformed into shops. On the south side, where is now a tailor's, stood,
until 1877, Trinity Chapel, a plain, red-brick building built by
Archbishop Tenison, in